Bottle holder



April 10, 1962 P. .1. HIMLER 3,029,058

' BOTTLE HOLDER Filed June 29, 1961 F|a.3. 5 I4 B FIG. 2. 5 8 IO 4 1yF|G.4. 7 8 IO 3 3 INV EN TOR.

1w Q Mme MXM 3,029,058 BQTTLE HULDER Paul J. Himler, 2ll33 N. 7th St,Phoenix, Ariz. Filed June 29, 1961, Ser. No. 120,736 2 Claims. (Cl.248350) This invention concerns a bottle holding support.

The invention also contemplates the bottle holding support to holdsticky and viscous liquids used in cosmotologists parlors, or the like.

One of the objects of the invention is to provide a holder having acomparatively large base which will re? ceive and hold various smallbottles used to contain heavy sticky viscous liquids, such as nailpolish or coating and the like.

Another object of the invention is to provide a holder having a stablesemi-flexible base which will cling to smooth surfaces and a bottleholder on the top side of said base made of pliant flexible materialwhich will receive and resiliently hold various shapes of bottles usedin cosmotology and keep them from spilling when desired, or will holdthem at an angle so that a brush may be inserted through the neck of thebottle to the bottom in a substantially horizontal direction.

Still another object is to provide a bottle holder having acomparatively hard base of yieldable material and an upright hollowholder on its upper face adapted to re- 7 ceive and hold bottlescontaining sticky viscous fluids in a manner so that they will not heaccidentally upset and also shaped so that the bottles may be held in avertical position or at any desired angle to the horizontal. to enablethe user to have access to fluid substances in the bottom of saidbottle.

Other objects will appear hereinafter.

I attain the foregoing objects by means of the devices, parts andcombinations of parts shown in the accompanying drawings, in which-FIGURE 1 is a perspective view of the bottle holder incorporating myimprovements and showing a bottle held in the holding cavity in twopositions;

FIGURE 2 is a front elevational view of my bottle holder;

FIGURE 3 is a mid-sectional elevational view of my bottle holder withthe bottle shown in place and held in tilted position;

FIGURE 4 is a plan view of the holder shown in FIGURES l and 2.

Similar numerals refer to similar parts in the several v1ews.

The bottle holder, as herewith illustrated, is composed of a base 2which is approximately one-half to elevensixteenths of an inch thick andis oval when viewed from above. This is made of yieldable somewhatpliant material, such as sponge rubber with compressed and firmed outerfaces, or the like, and has a roughened lower face 3 to enable it tocling to smooth, slick surfaces.

In the middle of its upper face 4 there is a holding cavity 5 made froma rounded piece or strip 6 of yieldable rubber, vinyl or the like. Thisholding cavity has a circular shape when viewed from above with acircular opening 7 at the top and basically has the shape of a frustumof a cone. On one side of the top edge, as indicated by numeral 8, anotch is cut into the slanting side 10 of the material forming thecavity.

The interior or cavity of this holder is normally circular ite StatesPatent Patented Apr. 10, 1962 2 with the sides 12 slanting upwardly andinwardly as with the frustum of a cone.

Since the material is yieldable, bottles of various sizes may beinserted through the top opening 14 and will then rest on the top face 4of the base and be held in position so they will not spill.

If it is desired to tilt the bottle as is often done when using smallquantities of nail polish or lacqueryor similar materials, then thebottle may be held as shown in FIGURE 3 where it is tilted at an angle.The bottle in this case is indicated at B in FIGURE 3. The bottle,

when held vertically, is indicated at A, FIGURE 1. The bottle indicatedat A has the shape of a truncated prism. This shape is readily held bythe flexible sides 12 of the material forming the'cavity 5. A bottleshown at A in FIGURE 1 may also be tilted if desired with its upperportion inserted into the notch 8. In this position its base or lowerpart will be adequately gripped and held by the flexible sides of thematerial forming the cavity and its neck, or upper part, marked A willbe held by the edges of the sides of the slot 8. In either case thebottle is held firmly and is sufiiciently secure that the contents willnot be spilled by tipping when the cork is removed. Quite often thecork, such as C, is provided with a brush extending axially from itslower face. When the cork is removed this brush is used to apply theliquid contained in the bottle. The holder retains the bottle with anadequately firm grip on the sides of the bottle so that the bottle mayremain in the cavity, as a holder, and the cork repeatedly applied tothe bottle and removed from it while the brush is inserted and withdrawnfrom the liquid contents of the bottle.

From the foregoing it will be understood that I have provided a holderwhich has an adequately firm base and I a bottle holding cavity madefrom pliant mbber adequately cemented or otherwise attached to the base.The holder is sulficiently flexible to accommodate bottles of varioustypes and also permits all bottles held to be tipped and tilted ifdesired.

I claim:

l. A bottle holder for bottles containing viscous liquids comprising asemi-flexible base, a strip of yieldable rubber rolled to define theshape of a frustum of a cone having its lower edge attached centrally tosaid base forming a bottle holding cavity; and having its upper edgeadapted to yieldably hold the sides of a bottle placed in said cavityand having a notch to receive and hold the upper part of a bottle whichis placed in said cavity.

2. A bottle holder for bottles containing viscous liquids comprising asemi-flexible flat oval base of pliant material; a frusto-conical holderhaving sides made from thin elastic yieldable material, centrallyattached to said base and having a cavity with a circular top openingwith a notch on its edge to receive and yieldably hold the upper part ofa bottle disposed in said cavity.

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